Performance artist Praba Pilar presents her newest techno-obra performatica, BOT I. Samuel Beckett gave us Not I, Asimov gave us I Robot, and now, from the neo colonial world center of silicon nanobots of San Francisco, California, Pilar offers us BOT I. The body in the techno craze? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency? Biopiracy and indigeneity? Military Robotics? Trafficking of women over the internet? E-Waste? Autobiographical and contemporary, this Spanglish interpretation of the delusions and illusions of the technocultural era delivers us Out, Into This World….

Colombian and presently residing in the Bay Area of California, Praba Pilar is a performance artist, technologist and cultural theorist who explores the aspects of advanced technologies that generate new forms of economic, environmental and sexual exploitation and erasure. Her site works, performances, street theatre, writing and websites have been presented nationally and internationally at multiple museums, galleries, conferences, performance festivals and universities. She has been written about in numerous publications, and honored with multiple awards, from the Creative Capital to the Hawaii Fluxus Award. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Performance Studies: Practice as Research at the University of California at Davis and can be visited online at http://www.prabapilar.com